Well, someday, perhaps. She is too young for her own handgun right now. We are teaching her self defense, accuracy, and safety. Someday she may be in a situation where she has to do that, or save someone else.Awesome. Another person with a gun!
It's very disingenuous, IMO, to pretend TR was a "child" just "playing" in a park. He was 5'7", and just under 200 pounds. A child only by date of birth, which the responding officers couldn't know when they encountered him.
And by the way, why does it matter at all how old he was? He wasn't known to be intellectually disabled or mentally ill, that I have read anywhere. He was a criminal suspect threatening bystanders with a gun, pulling it in and out of his waistband over and over, and pointing it at people's faces. It shouldn't matter if he was 10, 12, 16, 20, or older. The BEHAVIOR is what matters. He wasn't a toddler. He knew exactly what he was doing. He knew right from wrong, IMO.
This was not my post. This was from K-Z, explaining why it was okay to gun down a child. Because if they are all grown up looking, who's to know how old they REALLY ARE?
And Tamir Rice was clearly not exercising 2nd amendment rights. That's another attempt at conflating two very dissimilar issues.
I am very supportive of gun rights. Just a few days ago my spouse and I took our young teen daughter to the range for her first time. I know with full confidence that she understands that the behavior that TR displayed will get her killed.
TR didn't die because of a 2nd amendment issue.
Race has nothing to do with the facts. He was pointing a gun at people, that's a CRIME. 911 was called. When officers arrived he pulled it out of his pants. He was shot.
Sorry. But those are the facts.
First, those are not the fact. He was not pointing a “gun” at anyone, and therefor he committed no crime.
Second if race had nothing to do with it then, then why was this woman not shot down the same way?
Woman, 66, pointed BB gun at Connecticut cops and yelled, ‘What are you doing, shoot me!’
That was an ld lady that was yelling SHOOT ME at the cops. It was obviously a 'suicide by cop' scenario. And she threw the gun down herself and said it was a fake. So how can you compare the two incidents?
First, those are not the fact. He was not pointing a “gun” at anyone, and therefor he committed no crime.
Second if race had nothing to do with it then, then why was this woman not shot down the same way?
Woman, 66, pointed BB gun at Connecticut cops and yelled, ‘What are you doing, shoot me!’
OK but why didn’t they just get out of their car shooting at the woman in zero seconds, just like they did Tamir? They were responding to a report of a woman with a gun threatening people. You people who are defending the cops all the time, keep saying they can’t take any chances. So why did they take a chance on her?:thinking:
21 year old white man with a real gun kills 10 black people in a church. Cops catch him, take him into custody, then take him to Burger King for lunch before taking him to jail. But a 12 year old black kid with a toy gun who committed no crime, gets shot down in zero seconds.
^bbm. Can anyone provide link w vid of woman at Torrington PD? TYVM. (I did not yet find)
"Rothenberg then allegedly stood in front of an employees-only entrance, with the handgun raised in a shooting stance. After pointing it at officers,she threw the gun and was taken into custody, police said." bbm^
http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Boom-Boom-Boom-Woman-Points-Fake-Gun-at-Police-in-Torrington-363536941.html.
Maybe b/c she threw the gun down??? IDK.
If people want to see it as a racial thing, they will keep doing so, no matter how many times others try and explain it.
If you cannot see the difference between an old woman, yelling 'SHOOT ME ,SHOOT ME' in front of the police station, and a young black male suddenly pulling a gun out of his waistband, then I won't be able to explain it further.
These cops have seen about 700 'assault with a gun' cases in Cleveland this year. How many of those shootings were done by 63 yr old white women yelling 'Shoot Me!' ----and how many were done by young gang members in the park?
Please explain it to me. I want to know. If you don’t explain it, then I’m going to assume you can’t.
So in other words, cops can take chances on 63 year old white women. They can’t take chances on 12 year old black boys? That sounds like a smoking gun for it being a "racial thing”.
To the best of my knowledge no video has been released of it.
But here are eight other cases of the same thing.
8 White People Who Pointed Guns At Police Officers and Managed Not to Get Killed
White guys get arrested; black guys often get shot in similar cases.
First, those are not the fact. He was not pointing a gun at anyone, and therefor he committed no crime.
Second if race had nothing to do with it then, then why was this woman not shot down the same way?
Woman, 66, pointed BB gun at Connecticut cops and yelled, What are you doing, shoot me!
OK but why didnt they just get out of their car shooting at the woman in zero seconds, just like they did Tamir? They were responding to a report of a woman with a gun threatening people. You people who are defending the cops all the time, keep saying they cant take any chances. So why did they take a chance on her?:thinking:
21 year old white man with a real gun kills 10 black people in a church. Cops catch him, take him into custody, then take him to Burger King for lunch before taking him to jail. But a 12 year old black kid with a toy gun who committed no crime, gets shot down in zero seconds.
@aThousandYearsWide sbm bbm Glad the story ended without an arrest or injury for death.... I had done something similar as a teenager with my friend and sister. In my neighborhood we had a wooded area behind fenced backyards. We were running around with a airsoft gun in those woods. Someone in their backyard saw us and threatened to call the police. We showed him the orange tip on the toy gun and fled...